Getting to Know……THE SOUND OF MUSIC is a tuneful, heartwarming story. It is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. The story is about Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess in the home of a widowed Naval Captain with seven children. She brings a new love of life and music into the home.